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Speaker 1: Come to the Olympics in the moment with Steves Wether's

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Speaker 1: money mate, how are you yes?

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Speaker 2: And the only time the traffic ever worked in Sydney

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Speaker 2: was back in two thousand during the Olympic Games. Has

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Speaker 2: never been any good ever since?

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Speaker 1: Well, exactly nuclear power by ten years. Where are we

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Speaker 1: at with that debate, because the original debate was you

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Speaker 1: could never do it as far too expensive as that changed.

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Speaker 2: Depends on newspaper you read today. Interestingly, the left leaning

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Speaker 2: nine papers like the Sidney Morning Herald and The Aide

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Speaker 2: say that it's all two hards never going to work.

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Speaker 2: But the news limited tabloids of which I write a

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Speaker 2: column wake weekly, I have exactly the opposite story from

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Speaker 2: exactly the same report. Funny that they say a number

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Speaker 2: of events nuclear reactive prototypes could be operational in the

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Speaker 2: first half of the twenty thirties. This is a report

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Speaker 2: from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. These

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Speaker 2: are these things called SMRs, which are a small nuclear

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Speaker 2: modular reactors capable of delivering significant numbers of next to

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Speaker 2: kind reactors has a ten year challenge, this report says.

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Speaker 2: So one paper says it's not going to happen. The

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Speaker 2: other says it will. Now this is going to be

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Speaker 2: a major political debate during the election campaign whenever that

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Speaker 2: might be. Because Chris Bowen, the current Minister in charge

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Speaker 2: of Energy, says can't work, too expensive, never happen and

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Speaker 2: has completely ruled it out. Local government across Australia is

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Speaker 2: anti nuclear and all state governments have legislation in place

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Speaker 2: that says you can't build nuclear reactors. So Peter Dutton's

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Speaker 2: going to seize upon this. You'll see him out there

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Speaker 2: today talking about it enthusiastically. And so it's a very

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Speaker 2: odd argument where one report says it can't happen, one

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Speaker 2: says ken.

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Speaker 1: So we'll wait and see how much fizz is there

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Speaker 1: for the Olympics in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot, because we're good. It's as simple as that.

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Speaker 2: Once the Olympics begin, Australians get very excited because, particularly

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Speaker 2: in swimming the first week of the games, there is

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Speaker 2: a really great appetite for it because we'll win gold

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Speaker 2: medals and there's no doubt about that. We're pretty good

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Speaker 2: in a couple of other sports than Matilda's obviously are

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Speaker 2: pretty good in the soccer, and so there's a chance

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Speaker 2: that we might pick up medals there as well. So

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Speaker 2: once it begins, I don't think anyone's going to not

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Speaker 2: too many people are going to get up, but I

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Speaker 2: think our time it's going to be three point thirty

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Speaker 2: in the morning on Saturday to watch the opening ceremony

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Speaker 2: float down the scene. But other than that, once the

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Speaker 2: swimming begins, their time difference aside, there'll be huge enthusiasm

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Speaker 2: for it. I think.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about these reports that the Australian athletes said

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Speaker 1: you don't wear uniforms when you go out your Channel

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Speaker 1: nine crew were attacked over Niser A bit of angst around.

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Speaker 2: That, Yeah, there is, I mean this allegation of a

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Speaker 2: woman who'd been gang raped by five men. Obviously she's Australian,

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Speaker 2: Obviously that is going to cause great concerns. And two

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Speaker 2: two GB radio where I used to it technicians from

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Speaker 2: the nine team, they've got two hundred people over there.

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Speaker 2: Can you believe it have been attacked in of a

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Speaker 2: serious physical nature? Is the way it's been reported. Channa

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Speaker 2: Night's director of Sport Local Brent Williams, told staff that

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Speaker 2: two team members left the International Broadcast Center walking to

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Speaker 2: accommodation in the northeastern suburb of La Bourgier. Now you

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Speaker 2: just described Paris as before I came on, and I

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Speaker 2: agree completely with your description. But we wouldn't normally go.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have thought to the northeastern suburbs of Paris,

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Speaker 2: presumably because they're for our radio techs and you've got

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Speaker 2: some wonderful ones working there with you. I sent out

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Speaker 2: some cheapy accommodation autmost in the boonies, and so that

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Speaker 2: they have been attacked overnight. So Adamy is champion cyclist

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Speaker 2: chef the mission for the Australian team has told the

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Speaker 2: team that if you go outside, please, whatever you do,

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Speaker 2: don't wear your Olympic colors.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unfortunate. Brittany Higgins. I just can't work out

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Speaker 1: this goes back to Luhmann and the case and the

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Speaker 1: lawyer's fees and stuff he's broke there after him for millions,

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Speaker 1: will be for the rest of his Life's now got

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Speaker 1: to sell her house. Did she not think that was

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Speaker 2: Clearly not two point four million dollar payout from the

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Speaker 2: Australian taxpayer Britney Higgins after the alleged rape of her,

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Speaker 2: which is now, according to a federal court judgement, proven

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Speaker 2: to have occurred. So she and David she As the boyfriend,

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Speaker 2: take off. They buy this quite nice little chateau house

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Speaker 2: in France, in some remote village. They've only been there

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Speaker 2: eighteen months, maybe not even that, maybe twelve months. Linda Reynolds,

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Speaker 2: the minister, is sooning both of them for defamation. He's

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Speaker 2: folded and says he can't afford to fight it, so

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Speaker 2: he's going to have to pay Reynolds costs. She if

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Speaker 2: she loses it would have to pay court costs. They now,

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Speaker 2: so I have up to a million dollars so the

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Speaker 2: house would be worth maybe that, maybe a little less.

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Speaker 2: It's now on the market. They're back, going to have

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Speaker 2: to go back to Perth and fight this case, and

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Speaker 2: Reynolds if she wins, they'll have to pay her costs

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: I continue to be grouped, fascinated, whatever word you want

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Speaker 1: to use by this c f ME EU thing. Darren

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Speaker 1: Greenfield as the new South Wales Secretary. They talk about

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Speaker 1: ghosting and paying for people who never turned up for

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Speaker 1: jobs and Sebus, which is a massive superannuation company is

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Speaker 1: now involved in all of this. And it's when I

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Speaker 1: look at Darren Greenfield, he looks like a thug? Does

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Speaker 1: he look like a thug? Because the chances are he

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Speaker 1: might well be one? Or am I just sort of

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Speaker 1: looking at things that don't you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: They all look like thugs.

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Speaker 2: I'll let you describe him as that, even though we're

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Speaker 2: on New Zealand Radio. I'm not really going to want

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Speaker 2: to sell my house to pay mister Greenfield's legal fees

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Speaker 2: any subsequent court case. But yes, you look at the

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Speaker 2: CFMAU members and they give you the appearance of being big,

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Speaker 2: strong fellows who could potentially be puggished. There's no doubt

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Speaker 2: about band. This is going to go on and on

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Speaker 2: and on, and of course the federal and state governments

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Speaker 2: are not doing anything to stop that. They were pointed administrators. Now,

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Speaker 2: when you describe mister Greenfield in as a physical person,

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Speaker 2: do you think an administrator is going to scare mister

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Speaker 2: Greenfield out of anything? Hall No, of course not. So

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Speaker 2: it's all going to end up where the union will

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Speaker 2: quietly slip away for a few months, maybe a year

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Speaker 2: or so, and they'll be found and so.

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Speaker 1: When all this ghostings going on, you're paying for people

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Speaker 1: who never turn up for the work. Daniel Andrews, when

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Speaker 1: it was initially brought to his attention, said it was isolated.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is he like I mean, what's he doing?

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Speaker 1: Is he thick or just duplicitor.

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Speaker 2: I'm waiting for your description again. He's retired on a

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Speaker 2: pension and doesn't give us stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's bottom Ye really unreal, all right mate, go well,

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Speaker 1: see you in court. Steve Price out of Australias Mondays Wednesdays.

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